Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The logic of this defied Irish women who were forced to deduce that the spectacle of women wielding pints must offend male sensibilities at a very deep level , especially those who equated pint-downing by women with lesbian leisure . |
| 32 | In June he put on a military demonstration for Yeltsin , and out of this grew friendly relations . |
| 33 | None of this made any sense — none of it . |
| 34 | Confimation of this came last week when the longest-ever Education Bill was set before Parliament . |
| 35 | None of this left much room for openly expressed admiration for other countries , particularly small and peripheral ones . |
| 36 | But none of this had much importance . |
| 37 | None of this had any effect on the two Williams drivers , and they made their customary start . |
| 38 | The mindlessness of this acquired behavioural numbness is illustrated by the contrary phenomenon of sensitisation : almost any irrelevant but novel stimulus can instantly destroy habitation 's insensitivity . |
| 39 | Since the logic of this eluded most people , it seemed reasonable to conclude that he was belatedly paying the price for arguing with an umpire . |
| 40 | None of this caused any problem at all as it was something Sylvia was well able to do in reality . |
| 41 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 42 | None of this dampened German feelings of superiority . |
| 43 | The results of this included some abandonment of cultivation in areas such as Dartmoor , where high contour settlements seem to have been effectively deserted by 1350 , and problems in farming on heavy soils which could suffer from waterlogging . |
| 44 | The creation of the Ministry of Health in 1919 registered a self-conscious application of this moralized medical ideology . |
| 45 | I have played parts of this set several times over , long into the night … ( ) |
| 46 | But only one out of 115 interviewed last year found work compared with one out of 52 the previous year . |
| 47 | The Royal Commission ( Highlands and Islands ) of 1892 spent several days here and the Minutes of Evidence tell about the conditions of crofting , what was grown , yields of the crops , and their stock . |
| 48 | The Royal Commission ( Highlands and Islands ) of 1892 spent several days here and the Minutes of Evidence tell about the conditions of crofting , what was grown , yields of the crops , and their stock . |
| 49 | An analysis of the half-year accounts and projections for the end of 1991 indicated that LAB 's expenditure for the year would be somewhat over budget , due entirely to costs hitherto outside it control . |
| 50 | Official figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed industrial production declining by only 0.6 per cent compared with the same period of 1990 — a lesser decline than might have been expected in view of the Gulf crisis . |
| 51 | In assays using antibody L289 , specific for human progastrin derived peptides extending beyond the C-terminal region , there were significantly higher concentrations ( p<0.001 , Wilcoxon ) of immunoreactive material in tumour extracts ( 1.54 ( 0.2 ) pmol/g , in 40 of 44 patients ) compared with control samples ( of which only nine of 44 contained measurable activity , Figure 3 ) . |
| 52 | The proportion of farm workers who live in tied accommodation also requires comment ; estimates range from just over one-half to 70 per cent ( Shelter 1974 ; Irving and Hilgendorf 1975 ) ; Gasson ( 1975 ) suggested the existence of 73,000 tied agricultural cottages in England and Wales . |
| 53 | Secondary B.Eds had the same tendency : only two out of 10 had optional courses , and all courses were of at least 20 hours . |
| 54 | Subject report instead of annual got enough space in there only make it small . |
| 55 | On the bench was the electrophoresis apparatus plugged into its power pack and with two columns of six paired small circles punched in the sheet of agar gel . |
| 56 | Mrs Beattie , 37 , said : ‘ When I find a man who can recall the colour of a lounge carpet in the third house of six visited that day , then I will happily interview him . |
| 57 | His move into stockbroking at the age of 21 followed two years ' training to be a chartered accountant which by his own admission he did n't enjoy . |
| 58 | Thirteen patients showed a normal SeHCAT test , and 11 of these had normal concentrations of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one . |
| 59 | Monopolistic trading companies , a state bank , efforts to stimulate industrial development ; none of these had much success . |
| 60 | None of these had much significance for the hard-pressed businessman , struggling against his competitors at home and abroad , fighting off trade-union influence and coping with a growing volume of government-inspired social and industrial legislation . |